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Friday, January 2, 2026

Geese, mini golf and more sickness

Sweet siblings!


So chill!


David fell asleep by the table!


Slicing the Canadian geese that Alex and Marlee shot in Canada and the cooked. 


Silly boys at the skatepark!


Chili family mini golf. David and Maria stayed home worh mormor and morfar.






And yes… I won :-)


Maria setting up camp in the bathroom :-)


A short soccer season before Christmas. First time for David. He was so cute!!!


Fika in the front yard :-)



Sick kids watching TV. Alex was soon heading to Brazil for COP30 (UN conference).


I got really sick, too, and mormor slept with a sick Maria on the couch all night so I could get some good sleep. ❤️  It surely helped us both to get better sooner. 


Sickness and [Swedish] Father’s Day

Sadly the second half of Mormor’s and Morfar’s visit was spent mostly at home as all of us got sick, except mormor and morfar.  We were hit worse than any time I can remember and it was great to have the extra help even if we would have preferred to enjoy their company much differently. 

A feverish David


We broke out the Swedish candy that mormor and morfar brought. Since we several of us were not feeling great we had strict limits on the candy. 






Enjoying Swedish polarkaka!



Father’s Day in Sweden so morfar was celebrated with breakfast in bed and dinner at a local restaurant. 


Football with friends 



Sunday, December 28, 2025

Mormor and morfar visiting! Volusia fairground field trip.

Maria is comfortably waiting for mormor and morfar to come :-)


The same day that mormor and morfar arrived, Alex and Rafael went to Michigan and Montana for a work trip. They also had some fun!


Our first event with mormor and morfar was a field trip to Volusia fairgrounds. It was a lot of fun!

There were all kinds of different animals shows.






At the same time the septic tank at our new house was installed. 



Rafael at a museum in Montana.



Ice cream at surf and scoop :-)


Friday, December 26, 2025

Coop, house update, and baby shower

David doing a craft at church. He has such patience!


Coop day



Buddies


House update, more bathroom improvements :-)

Wet area in the master bath upstairs. 


Master bath down stairs


Kids’ bath


Boys in the woods, by their fort :-)




One of our friends is having a baby soon and had a baby shower. In one of the games I js to feed Alex baby food, green beans!!! Poor thing!


Rafael having fun with some of his friends. 


Maria in the nursery at coop :-)


Rafael doing a presentation on a country in my geography class.